Jane-eyre Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“I know no medium: I never in my life have known any medium in my dealings with positive, hard characters, antagonistic to my own,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Most of all, I think it was the novels that saved me from submission. I was young, but the first tiny, meek beginnings of…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I learned that you could so fully inhabit a character that you could fool others, move others. With talent and commitment, you could seduce…

— Bryan Cranston

“My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do - be courageous…

— John Scalzi

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“Writing is the food for my soul; not a medium to earn name & fame.”

— Mallika Tripathi

“The character of people varies, and it is easy to persuade them of a thing, but difficult to keep them in that persuasion.”

— Nancy Goldstone

“There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.”

— Alan Watt

“Passion may be false, trivial or unnatural, but, if violent enough, is not without some trace of grandeur.”

— W. Somerset Maugham